Read the horrors of living in North St. Paul, MN. Burning sinuses, nausea, headaches, sore throat, shortness of breath, if you are healthy you can experience all of these maladies in this town. If you have asthma or respiratory disorders, North St. Paul's heavy air pollution could be DEADLY. Smoky air almost every day of your life in this polluted nightmare of a town.

Recreational Fires Must Be Eliminated

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The air is smoky from burning wood in North St. Paul, MN, almost every evening. It is a nightmare. What used to be a nice place to live has become a living hell.

WARNING: If you buy a house in North St. Paul, MN, you will regret it! It may be the biggest, most expensive mistake you ever make. You will breathe smoky air almost every day of your life in this town.This is not an exaggeration. The wood smoke in this town gets heavy and gets heavy often. When you want to get out of this dump of a town, how many people do you think are going to want to buy a house in a city where heavy air pollution every night is normal and clean air is rare? This blog gets thousands of visitors every year. The word is out: North St. Paul is a horrible place to live!

Fresh air is very rare around here. If you are considering moving to North St. Paul or buying a home here, I strongly recommend that you do not do it no matter how good of a price you get. The only way you will be happy in this town is if you love breathing smoky air almost every day. North St. Paul, MN, is a horrible place to live because of the smoky air!

Burning wood, grass, leaves, paper, cardboard, and sometimes plastic, construction materials, and chemicals, if it is combustible it gets burned in North St. Paul and you are going to breathe it.

The air was smoky 25 out of 31 evenings in July 2009. We had 37 hours of continuous wood smoke in the air Aug. 29th - 31st. There was wood smoke in the air 19 consecutive evenings from Aug. 21st to Sept. 8th. It rained heavily on Aug. 20th, providing the only relief we got from wood smoke for almost three weeks.

Is this a good way to live? No. It is a horrible way to live. Take it from someone who knows. Breathing smoky, polluted air every day is misery.

Every day in this city several people are having recreational fires. Every evening the air is filled with the stench of burning wood. I am one person sick and tired of breathing smoky air every day. Is it too much to ask to be able to breathe fresh air in your own home?

Who is responsible for this wood smoke nightmare? The four city council members are responsible. Council members Jan Walczak, Bob Bruton, Terry Furlong, and Dave Zick have refused to do anything about this wood smoke problem. They don't care if you have a child with asthma. They don't care if you have to live like a shut-in because the air is so polluted. They don't care if your sinuses burn because the wood smoke is so heavy.

Our four Council members have defended the rights of a small percentage of households to burn wood daily over the rights of all the rest of us to breathe.

You have no right to breathe under Walczak, Bruton, Furlong, and Zick. Burners have the right to burn wood 49 hours a week recreationally. The rest of us have no rights at all.

If you are considering purchasing real estate in the city of North Saint Paul, Minnesota (55109), factor this blog carefully into your decision. Buying a home in this city means that your kids will breathe smoky air while playing in the yard almost every day. Your baby will breathe smoky air in her crib should you leave the windows open around your house. If you leave your windows open you will wake up in the middle of the night choking on smoky air.

Perhaps worst of all, your utility rates will be high because you will have to run the air conditioner instead of leaving the windows open on a cool summer evening. You have no other choice because almost every night the air is too smoky to breathe in this city. Consider this blog your warning.

North St. Paul, Minnesota, is a wonderful community other than the wood smoke. If we could restore fresh air like we used to enjoy, life would be happy again. But that is not going to happen any time soon.

Friday, March 23, 2012

Friday 03/23/2012 Air Pollution

It's another smoky evening as usual in North St. Paul. The weather is nice for this time of year. There is yard waste to be burned. People have to get drunk and sit around smoky bonfires because they can't find anything else to do.

2:10 PM: Light grass smoke. Home at this time to notice someone is burning grass somewhere. I have wondered how much yard waste burning happens during the day when people are at work. This smoke lasted for less than half an hour.

4:42 PM: Light to moderate grass smoke. There is an illegal yard waste burner who must not be too far away for the smoke to be this heavy. Close the windows! North St. Paul sucks. 71 degrees and it would be a nice afternoon to have the windows open but we can't!

5:15 PM: Light to moderate grass and what may be wood being burned with it. It is common for yard waste burners to start a bonfire and rake their grass clippings into it. Or the yard waste burner could be disposing of tree branches. It's too smoky to sit outside and too smoky to open the windows. North St. Paul is a horrible place to live.

5:40 PM: Light to moderate paper or some other type of smoke. Why not burn some other types of waste while you are at it? I don't know who is doing the burning. Nobody around us is doing it. It could be someone on the next block or down further than that.

6:30 PM: No smoke. The calm before the storm.

7:00 PM: No smoke. There will be as there always is. If it is nice enough to have the windows open and it isn't raining, people are burning. Wood, grass, paper, if it is combustible, people burn it in North St. Paul.

7:30 PM: Light to moderate wood smoke. It's smoky outside. Too smoky to sit outside. Too smoky to open the windows. We are prisoners in our own homes once again.

8:00 PM:Moderate wood smoke. The wood smoke pollution has gotten heavier. It is very smoky outside. Not as smoky as it was last Friday. Last Friday it was extremely smoky. This Friday is only very smoky. In North St. Paul, very smoky air is an improvement over how bad it can get.

8:55 PM: No smoke. The breeze must have shifted. The burning isn't ending this early on Friday.

9:30 PM: Light wood smoke.

10:10 PM: Light to moderate wood smoke.

10:40 PM: Light to moderate wood smoke continues.

Midnight: Light wood smoke. There is no chance of opening the windows before bed.

The wood smoke continued well into the morning hours. Burning is supposed to cease at 11 PM but it rarely does in this shitty polluted hell of a city.